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A male Rutian Twi'lek was a maleTwi'lek inhabitant of the city of Nabat on the planetRyloth, where he lived with his family during the Clone Wars. He often became concerned about his young daughter, Numa, who constantly explored the shelter tunnels under their home. Fearing that she could get lost inside the tunnels, he forbade Numa from going there alone, although Numa disobeyed his orders. One night in 21 BBY, Numa followed a recon droid inside the tunnels—inadvertently, at the exact moment that the Confederacy of Independent Systemsinvaded Ryloth. As part of the invasion, the Separatists subjugated Nabat, and Numa's father was killed alongside his wife, leaving their daughter orphaned.

When Numa and her mother returned, the elder female Twi'lek reported that Tronda had felt a "storm" approaching, and Numa's father comforted his love before turning his attention to Numa. When her father asked how her doll had ended up in the tunnels, Numa explained that the doll had been following a "bright-eye," but her father did not believe her. Reproving Numa for fibbing, Numa's father reminded her that she was not allowed to go down to the tunnels alone, as she could easily get lost there. Later that night, however, the "bright-eye"—which was actually a Confederate recon droid—appeared again in the tunnels, and Numa pursued it there. At the exact moment, the storm Tronda had felt arrived on Ryloth in the form of an invasion launched by the Confederacy, and Nabat sustained serious damage. While Numa survived the attack by taking shelter in the tunnels, many other Twi'leks were captured by the invading Confederate battle droids.[1] Both Numa's father and mother perished during the raid, orphaning the young Twi'lek.[3]

Numa's father cared strongly about his family. Fearing that Numa could get lost inside the shelter tunnels, he did not permit his young daughter to enter them alone. He was not very trusting and did not believe in Tronda's feelings about the approaching "storm" or Numa's explanation about the "bright-eye"; in the latter situation, he believed that his daughter was simply lying. A native to the planet Ryloth, he spoke Twi'leki.[1]